CSS Grid Layout from the inside out (HTML5DevConf 2015)

Summary of my trip to San Francisco past October, where I was talking about CSS Grid Layout at HTML5DevConf.

Posted by Manuel Rego Casasnovas on February 18, 2016

As I announced in a previous blog post
I was attending HTML5DevConf past October,
where I gave a talk about CSS Grid Layout.
The video of my talk is now online, so I thought it would be a good moment
to remember the days in sunny San Francisco.

My Talk

First of all, thanks to the organization for giving me the chance to speak
about CSS Grid Layout during the conference.

My talk was in one of the rooms of the Contemporary Jewish Museum.
The room was full and people got really excited about CSS Grid Layout.
This is not a big surprise as I have the same feeling
every time someone speaks about it in any event.
Thanks for attending my talk and for the nice feedback. 😊

During the talk we reviewed the main features provided by Grid Layout spec
with live coding examples.
Then I also explained the work that the browser has to do to render a grid.
And finally we checked the current status on the different browser engines.

However, I’d like to highlight the talk by Parashuram Narasimhan
called Measuring web Perf ? Lets write an app for that !!.
During the talk he explained a tool called browser-perf
which automates performance measurements in web pages.
For example, you can test scrolling on a page and get the FPS
and other performance parameters from DevOps tools.
The cool thing is that you can very easily create a bot to monitor this
and check if you’re suffering any regression.
If you’re interested you can watch the video too.

San Francisco

Traveling to California is a long trip, but it really paid off.
The weather was perfect and I had time for some sightseeing
(as you can see in my flickr album).
San Francisco is a lovely city and, despite of the hills,
is a neat place for biking and walking.
On top of that, my fellow igalian Martin Robinson
was really kind and showed me some nice spots in the city.
Big thanks Martin!